anomaletixOnce you read Homestuck, you will never be ever to safely look through internet profile pictures again without seeing that emblematic gray skin tone. It's a cognitohazard of a work, one that will make you realize just how deep its roots have infested internet culture since its existence. Andrew Hussie made this work exist through a lot of things; unpaid child labor, mostly, but also an absolutely monolithic story with wayyy too many characters than should have realistically existed in a serialized webcomic. The key competitive advantage of Homestuck is its ease of "scrimblo access"; in this case the amount of characters is to its inherent benefit, as the personality contrast between all of them allows for any who engage to find the two or three they feel most closely to and now engage with fandom under that guise. Homestuck is ungodly hard for me to recommend anyone actually read in a modern context, in some part because of the length being way too long for the story it tells, in some part because it kind of sucks (that latter half is TOO goddamn dense), in some part because there is much better use of your time than reading it all. As a part of internet culture as a whole, though, Homestuck is undoubtedly important in the grand scheme of things, and is worth appreciating in that context for what it has been responsible for overall.
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